Tripp Lake’s towering pines and sparkling waters provide the ideal setting to foster memories, friendships and values that will last a lifetime. Founded in 1911, Tripp Lake is considered one of the finest girls’ camps in the country.Our full-season summer camp for girls ages 7 to 16 offers a broad array of team and individual sports, performing and visual arts, and outdoor living. In a fun and stimulating environment, we provide a range of opportunities for girls to challenge themselves, gain confidence and expand their horizons. Everything we do at TLC is imbued with what is known as the Spirit of Tripp Lake - a spirit that fosters camaraderie, enthusiasm, compassion, respect and responsibility.

I was a camper at Tripp for six summers and now my oldest daughter is enjoying her second summer at TLC. It is such a gift to be able to share this experience with my daughter and know that all of the traditions I experienced during my childhood summers are the same ones she is experiencing today. Singing camp songs, screaming out cheers, talking about Olympia, KP, Team Feast, Sing Song and Friday Night Services have strengthened our bond and created a sense of sisterhood that goes beyond the mother-daughter relationship. I can't wait until my two younger daughters get to experience summers at TLC with their big sister. Tripp provides the perfect environment to create lasting and meaningful friendships, to gain independence and learn how to work together as a group and to find your true self. I am so thankful for my experience as a camper and am thrilled to be able to provide this opportunity for my girls. There is no place like TLC!

Tripp Lake has been the best thing my parents have ever given me. TLC has shaped me into the person I am today. I cannot imagine my life without my best friends that I have met from camp. No matter how far away we live from each other, Tripp Lake Camp has brought us together and forever we will be. The lessons that I have learned will help in my future life. I am confident to say that without camp, I cannot even picture the person I would be. It is a magical place and it is truly the promise land. I feeling I get when I first step off the bus on the first day and indescribable. Tripp Lake Camp is the most amazing place in the world and I know that all campers truly think it is their "home."

After spending my summers as a camper at Tripp Lake, I was so excited to bring my daughter up to visit Tripp the summer before she was to attend. When we arrived, I walked into The Promised Land and it felt like a dream. It was magical! All of my long ago memories flooded my mind and warmed my heart. I cried just to be there again. Now it is years later and my daughter has aged out of camp. On our last visiting day up at Tripp, we sat under the trees together overlooking the beautiful grounds, the tennis couts, the stables, the basketball courts and most importantly the lake. We both cried. My daughter would be saying goodbye to camp in only a few weeks and I was having to say goodbye to camp all over again, that day. Now, 2 years later, we talk and dream about our next generation that will have the opportunity to experience the best summers ever. To make the best friends a girl could ever dream of, to have the ability to realize potentials that were never known, to be able to overcome challenges and have a confidence instilled that could never exist without camp....it's all priceless. The next best thing to being up in Maine at camp yourself is to be able to send your child up to camp in Maine. I thank my lucky stars every day that I have 2 sons still enjoying the best summers of their lives up in Maine. I'm able to continue living the dream vicariously - I still get to visit every summer!

I can confidently say that my eight summers at Tripp Lake were the best and will be the best summers of my life. The traditions at Tripp connect all of the past, present and future campers, and everywhere I go, whenever I see a fellow camper, we instantly connect by bonding over our common love for camp. Tripp Lake is the haven where girls can express themselves however they chose, and be as loud and wacky as they want. Every type of girl is accepted at TLC, and Tripp Lake is the perfect environment for young girls to create the strongest bonds of friendship that truly do last a lifetime.

Tripp Lake has been the most amazing experience of my life! I have learned so many valuable lessons that I will carry with me forever. It is a place that not only fosters friendship and sisterhood, but is also a second home to all. I have made so many everlasting relationships at Tripp that will last a lifetime. Camp has changed me as a person and taught me to be confident in myself. It truly is the most amazing place and feeling in the world and I cannot imagine my life without it.

I think about camp all the time and my memories of singing in OTW and sitting with my friends under the trees. I remember looking up to the older girls, looking forward to being in 1AB and being a role model for the younger campers. Tripp Lake has left me with some of the most incredible memories that I will keep forever.

Tripp Lake Camp... what can I say, some of the fondest memories of my life. Experiences that made me who I am today. There was no question I would send my daughter to the Promised Land! To share in the 100 years of traditional ME camping at its finest. I get chills when hearing the cheers. Tears come to my eyes when I watch the summer video and pass by 5 corners just as I arrive at camp on visiting Day. Tripp Lake Camp is simply Maine to me. It's still the same. The natural beauty, the cool lake. Doing triangles of the dock the first days of camp, Little and big team swim meets. Sailing a sunfish, tipping your canoe. Learning to water ski for the first time. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else. My mother, sister and 11 year old daughter in her 4th year wouldn't have it any other way!

I am not only a parent of two campers in Maine but also an alumni of Tripp Lake Camp in Poland, Maine. Just like my mother, aunts and cousins before me. There was never any doubt that my daughter (and son) would spend their summers away at camp in Maine. My camp experience is still held near and dear to my heart and it is the same for both of my children now. Each summer has been a growing experience for both of my kids in different ways. Camp is a place where they can be independent in a safe and loving environment. They are unplugged, away from the noise of the internet. But it isn't just about being away at camp, it is where they are away at camp. There is nothing like the sweet smell of pine in that Maine air or doing a cannonball into a lake. Maine is a world away. It is 3000 miles from where we live and I wouldn't have it any other way.

My oldest daughter is finishing up her last year at Tripp Lake Camp. Both my daughters now say that Maine is their home away from home. My children have had incredible experiences and opportunities to make them feel connected to the camp and the state. Tripp Lake, located in Poland is a very special place. A place that fosters traditions, sisterhood and spirit. Their very special camp experience has molded them into caring, empathetic and independent young women. Through camp, my girls have had the opportunity to explore some of the beautiful beaches in Maine. They have wonderful memories of Old Orchard, Popham and Ongonquit beaches. The trips to Camden and Bar Harbour made them feel even more connected to Maine. In my opinion, what makes camp in Maine and especially Tripp Lake, is the beautiful lake and trees and tranquility. There is no place other than Tripp Lake in Maine where I would want my children to have their special camp memories.

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